Re: [Gretl-devel] small bug in opening a file?
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
> On 01/10/13 16:31, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>> I think that, since it's a text file, you should use the "Import"
GUI
>> sub-menu instead.
>
> Yes, but I wonder why it is so "complicated" when in the CLI only with
> "open file.dat" all runs smoothly. It seems there is some asymetry between
> the GUI and the CLI in opening files.
Fair point. I think the GUI menu set-up dates back to a time when we weren't
so clever at detecting data file types and acting accordingly. Maybe we
should simplify it.
Or maybe, just try our battery of heuristics (file extension etc) on
File>Open and reserve File>Import when the user wants to force a
particular filter to be used (maybe, because you have, for some odd
reason, an excel file under the extension .txt or something weird like
that).
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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